Huawei is a private company of Chinese origins and has its headquarters in Shenzhen situated in China. This multinational corporation includes telecommunication equipment, enterprise network, semi-conductor, cloud computing services and consumer devices. Huawei Company has its presence in more than 170 countries and has 170,000 employees to provide efficient working and out of these 76,000 are engaged to work in its research and development division. Currently, brand Huawei does not deal directly with customers as it believes in cultivating appropriate channel of distribution that includes distributors, sales networking team, enterprise and consumers. Huawei faces tough competition from Ericson, Cisco System, ZTE Corporation, Apple etc. Huawei always focuses on providing best quality products to its customers as pricing are nearly same by all competitors. Answer the following questions based on the case above.

1. Analyze and apply Huawei marketing mix strategies. (7 points)

Zachary company produces commercial gardening equipment. since production is highly automated, the company allocates its overhead costs to product lines using activity-based costing. the costs and cost drivers associated with the four overhead activity cost pools follow: activities unit level batch level product level facility level cost $ 64,800 $ 27,730 $ 15,000 $ 154,000 cost driver 2,400 labor hrs. 47 setups percentage of use 11,000 units production of 780 sets of cutting shears, one of the company’s 20 products, took 240 labor hours and 7 setups and consumed 15 percent of the product-sustaining activities. required: (a) had the company used labor hours as a company wide allocation base, how much overhead would it have allocated to the cutting shears? (b) how much overhead is allocated to the cutting shears using activity-based costing? (c) compute the overhead cost per unit for cutting shears first using activity-based costing and then using direct labor hours for allocation if 780 units are produced. if direct product costs are $150 and the product is priced at 30 percent above cost for what price would the product sell under each allocation system? (d) assuming that activity-based costing provides a more accurate estimate of cost, indicate whether the cutting shears would be over- or underpriced if direct labor hours are used as an allocation base. explain how over-or undercosting can affect vaulker's profitability. (e) comment on the validity of using the allocated facility-level cost in the pricing decision. should other costs be considered in a cost- plus pricing decision? if so, which ones? what costs would you include if you were trying to decide whether to accept a special order?

If the economy were in the contracting phase of the business cycle, how might that affect your ability to find work?

When a shortage or a surplus arises in the loanable funds market a. the supply of loanable funds changes to return the economy to its original real interest rate b. the nominal interest rate is pulled to the new equilibrium level c. the demand for loanable funds changes to return the economy to its original real interest rate d. the real interest rate is pulled to the new equilibrium level